By Darren Allan
We now have a release date for AMD’s Radeon Pro Duo graphics card, at least according to the rumour mill, and the good news is this beefy beast of a pixel-shifter is due to drop soon.
Korean tech site Hardware Battle, an often cited source of GPU-related speculation, reckons that AMD’s new beast of a card will be out on April 26 – in just a smidge over a fortnight’s time.
Although you’ll need to steel your wallet – or indeed perhaps steal someone else’s – to be able to afford the thing, given that the retail price has previously been announced as $1,499 (around £1,060, or AU$1,980).
It’s so expensive because AMD has actually crammed dual GPUs on board the Pro Duo (hence the name). Given its huge amount of power under the bonnet – 16 teraflops of computing performance to be precise – this is a video card pitched at VR content creators, as well as enthusiast PC owners and their high-end rigs. (In gaming benchmarking, the Pro Duo is just over 50% faster than a GeForce GTX Titan Z in 3DMark Fire Strike running at 4K resolution.)
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Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components